Overpopulation: The transparent elephant in the room causing crucial modern crises

I sometimes see claims that so far warnings of problems caused by continued population growth have not happened. This totally ignores the large number of people who have starved in famines, died prematurely because of malnutrition, died in wars due to shortages of food and other resources. They ignore the envrionmental degradation we are causing.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/uoha-ott031114.php

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 17-Mar-2014

Contact: Camilo Mora
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Overpopulation: The transparent elephant in the room causing crucial modern crises

A review of nearly 200 research articles (~75% published in the last ten years) shows how the issue of population growth is being downplayed and trivialized despite its fundamental role on modern crises related to unemployment, public debt, welfare (e.g., reduced access to food and water or even health and education), extinction of species and climate change. The study suggests that no foreseeable pathways, to fix or ameliorate such crises, are likely without seriously dealing with natality rates by both developed and developing nations.

The paper is written by Camilo Mora, assistant professor of Geography in the College of Social Sciences at University of Hawaii at Manoa, and will appear in the March 17th issue of the peer-reviewed journal Ecology and Society.